He declared, "today, I would say (the
greatest threat to national security) is
this assault on President Trump. Let's be
clear what he's being accused of is treason.
This has never happened in America, that we
had a Russian agent in the White House.
Cohen believes Flynn did nothing wrong by
talking to the Russian ambassador,
describing it as 'his job' to do so.He then illuminated the indelible fact
that there is a 4th branch of government,
the intelligence community, who have been
meddling in American foreign affairs,
obstructing the other 3 branches of
government.

"In 2016, President Obama worked out
a deal with Russian President Putin for
military cooperation in Syria. He said
he was gonna share intelligence with
Russia, just like Trump and the Russians
were supposed to do the other day. Our
department of defense said it wouldn't
share intelligence. And a few days
later, they killed Syrian soldiers,
violating the agreement, and that was
the end of that. So, we can ask, who is
making our foreign policy in Washington
today?"

Professor Cohen added, "you and I have to
ask a subversive question, are there really
three branches of government, or is there a
4th branch of government? These intel
services. What we know, as a fact, is that
Obama tried, not very hard but he tried for
a military alliance with Putin, in Syria,
against terrorism and it was sabotaged by
the department of defense and its allies in
the intelligence services."

ISIS fighters are sometimes executed at the front lines, while
others are executed after being interrogated, a Mosul-based
commander told Integrated
Regional Information Networks, a nonprofit media site that
focuses on conflict zones.
Extrajudicial killings of ISIS fighters have been emerging pretty
much since the fight for Mosul began about seven months ago.
[. . .]"[K]illing captured combatants or civilians is a war crime,
as is the mutilation of corpses," Belkis Wille, Human Rights
Watch's senior researcher in Iraq, told IRIN.

#Iraq: Christian MPs condemn a speech by head of Shi'ite endowment says: Christians should either convert to Islam, pay Jizya or be killed.

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ALSUMARIA reports
that Alaa al-Moussawi, head of the Shi'ite Endowment, declared that
Iraqi Christians could convert to Islam, pay or a tax or be murdered.

For those who've forgotten, these were the same terms the Islamic State
gave to the citizens of Mosul when they took over the city in June 2014.

The Islamic State is a Sunni terrorist organization.

Repeating, Alaa al-Moussawi is Shi'ite.

Want to keep pretending the problem is the Islamic State?

Let's see how many more have to die before you wake up to the reality
that the leaders (most installed by the US -- few chosen by Iraqis) have
got to call for one-Iraq-for-all or the future is never ending violence
in Iraq.

With U.S. and Iraqi officials talking of the imminent defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq, President Trump faces a challenge to swing a deal that President Obama failed to nail down: an agreement with Baghdad to keep U.S. forces in Iraq after the fighting ends.Negotiations between Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and U.S. officials in Baghdad
on a new status of forces agreement began in earnest this month, senior
U.S. officials said. The deal would outline the legal and diplomatic
parameters underpinning a long-term U.S. military presence in the
country, and avoid the power vacuum that critics say developed after
American forces pulled out in December 2011.The issue is sensitive in Iraq, and Mr. al-Abadi this month insisted that there would be no “combat troops” in Iraq
once the Islamic State is defeated, even though both sides said talks
on the long-term role of the U.S. military in the country continue. An
official who traveled to Baghdad with Defense SecrNetary James Mattis recently said “nothing has been finalized.”